ResoLex Roundtable: The role of contracts in supporting collaborative environments on complex projects
2024-04-23 17:30 - 20:30 UTC | ResoLex, 1 Paternoster Lane, Paternoster Square, City of London, London, EC4M 7BQ, United Kingdom
On the 23rd of April, we’ll be joined by Roseanne Serrelli, Partner at Sharpe Pritchard to discuss how contracts can be used to help embed collaborative behaviours on complex projects.
The roundtable will explore a contract’s role in the creation and development of a collaborative working environment. Common wisdom suggests that you cannot mandate collaborative behaviour in a contract. There is, however, an opportunity to use the contract to provide clarity around issues that may otherwise become barriers to collaboration.
Sharpe Pritchard supports many nationally important infrastructure projects from energy to waste, sewage and the built environment. Roseanne will share her experience of creating the right contractual conditions to support a collaborative environment.
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Roseanne Serrelli
Partner and Head of Strategic Projects and Innovation
Roseanne was educated at New Hall, Cambridge University and trained at Sharpe Pritchard. She qualified as a solicitor in 1994 and became a Partner in 1997.
Roseanne has spent her entire career advising the Government and wider public sector in delivering complex, major and strategic projects. This covers both economic infrastructure in transport and environment as well as social infrastructure in communications, hospitals and education.
Ros is a public law, construction, contract and procurement specialist.
In addition to the law itself, she provides commercial, and strategic services including commercial plans, procurement strategies and stakeholder management.
Roseanne is in an expert in the following areas of law:
• Procurement law;
• Contracts and commercial, including payment mechanisms;
• Public law, including powers, decision making and governance;
• Construction contracts (all forms, and a leading expert in NEC suite);
• Waste law
• ICT and telecoms software and licensing
• Risk management
Roseanne deals with PFI/PF2/PPP and construction contracts (NEC, PSC, JCT, FIDIC, ICE). Roseanne advises on the law of security, including terms within the insurance and bond market. She leads workshops on evaluation and risk modelling and leads stakeholder discussions.

Interactive workshop: A hero leader, Intelligent Client and Capable Owner walk into a bar...
2024-06-05 15:45 - 18:30
A workshop to explore the impact of leadership in delivering successful outcomes through major projects, specifically through the role of clients and delivery team leaders. This interactive session will interrogate our beliefs around project leadership, and encourage us to challenge the assumption that collaboration is always the answer.
This workshop will explore the expectations placed on leadership roles, including:

The ‘hero leader’, who solves all the problems by making all the decisions with singular authority,
the ‘Intelligent Client’, who clearly articulates their requirements and manages stakeholders to achieve outcomes, and
the ‘Capable Owner’, who describes the required performance of their asset and brings together an effective enterprise to deliver.

We will also be invited to consider a new descriptor, the ‘Incomplete Client’, by our guest, Emma-Jane Houghton, Commercial Director of the Future Materials Campus programme at AWE. Emma-Jane will challenge our existing notions and encourage us to think differently about how we can work together to drive improvements in the way projects and programmes are delivered.
The event has been designed to cover general industry learning, encourage peer-to-peer working and challenge assumptions. We will work together throughout the workshop to co-create a broader, more nuanced model for project and programme leadership relationships.
For this workshop, we’ve partnered with the Major Projects Association (MPA). The event is open to both members and non-members of the MPA and has also been advertised on their website.
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ResoLex Roundtable: Negotiating with armed groups, game theory and the prisoners’ dilemma. What’s that got to do with the major projects industry?
2024-07-09 17:30 - 20:30
In addition to being the Chief Executive of ResoLex, Edward Moore is the Chairman of Concordis International, a peacebuilding charity. Concordis uses a dialogue approach to support the development of sustainable relationships amongst communities involved in or affected by armed conflict. At first light, this may seem rather unconnected to the development of collaborative relationships in the commercial world, yet there may be lessons to learn and adopt from the tools, techniques and experiences gained in conflict zones.
On the 9th of July, Peter Marsden Chief Executive of Concordis International is joining us to highlight the lessons we as an industry can learn from the third sector, in building relationships and resilience in complex environments, as we all work to create sustainable collaborative relationships.
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Guest speaker: Peter Marsden
Chief Executive, Concordis international
Peter is Chief Executive of the peacebuilding charity, Concordis International, and is a mediator and a former child protection lawyer.
He’s responsible for Concordis’ work in Central African Republic, Chad, Cameroon, Mauritania, Sudan and South Sudan, helping women and men affected by armed conflict to find workable solutions to root causes of their grievances.
Peter’s passion is to bring people together who would not normally meet, helping them to transform destructive conflict into a future-focused collaboration, to their mutual benefit. The Concordis team seeks to change incentives where conflict is fought and felt, increasing the economic and social benefits of peaceful coexistence, whilst also increasing the disincentives to violence.
Much of this work involves training local peacebuilders from across the conflict divides – who better to do this work than those who know intimately the history, politics and culture; people who will be part of these communities long after Concordis has left?
Peter left legal practice in 2007 and took a Masters in International Development at the LSE. He then served for three years as Director of the Foundation for Relief and Reconciliation in the Middle East. He organised peace talks in Iraq and Lebanon between high-level Iraqi religious leaders from across the sectarian divides, resulting in a joint Sunni-Shia fatwa against suicide bombing.
When he’s not working, Peter would prefer to be in the hills, running, climbing, skiing or cycling.

ResoLex Roundtable: Team of Teams - Giving leaders more time to lead
2024-10-08 17:30 - 20:30
The ethos behind ‘Team of Teams’ (ToTs) comes from the clarity of desired outcomes and the empowerment to make local decisions to best achieve these outcomes. ToTs has become a more common term following the popular book ‘Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by Stanley McChrystal’ and ‘One Mission: How Leaders Build a Team of Teams’, linking the approach used in the military to potential commercial applications.
The roundtable will explore the potential benefits of ToTs within a commercial setting, along with the experiences of challenges in managing a live roll-out of ToTs. We will also be able to draw on experiences from within the military commercial project delivery.
On the 8th of October, We’ll be joined by Scott Murray, Performance and Integration Director at SCS Railways and Simon Higgens MBE, Business Development Director at STORY Contracting to explore the topic further.
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ResoLex Roundtable: Are We Selecting and Developing the Right Type of Leaders?
2025-10-09 17:30 - 20:30
PLEASE NOTE: Places are limited; please email roundtable@resolex.com to express your interest. Once we reach capacity, a waiting list will be maintained.
As the complexity of major projects and programmes continues to increase, are we selecting and developing the right leaders for the job? Almost two years on from the Major Project Associations (MPAs) No More Heroes publication on leadership capability in Major Programmes have we improved?
We look forward to welcoming our panellists:
Michele Dix, Former Managing Director for Planning at Transport for London (TfL) and Chair of the MPA report ‘No More Hero Leaders’Julia Pyke, Joint CEO at Sizewell CRichard Holm, Fellow of the Institute of Collaborative Working (ICW) and Collaboration Lead at AtkinsRéalis
Together, we’ll explore insights from some of the UK’s most significant projects, challenge traditional leadership assumptions, and explore practical ways to grow leaders who thrive in complex environments.
This interactive session will bring together project professionals from commercial, delivery, and consulting to share their perceptions and experiences.
PLEASE NOTE: Places are limited; please email roundtable@resolex.com to express your interest. Once we reach capacity, a waiting list will be maintained.

ResoLex Roundtable: Lessons in Resilience from the Pinnacle of Motorsports
2025-11-03 17:30 - 20:30
As the demands on leaders in major projects and programmes continue to grow, so too does the pressure on their personal capacity. How can leaders sustain performance, maintain resilience, and create the conditions for their teams to succeed in increasingly complex environments?
Our October roundtable will highlight practical ways to grow leaders who thrive in complex environments, building on the MPA’s No More Heroes report. One area highlighted in the report is the ongoing leadership gap linked to burnout and low productivity.
This next roundtable looks to explore this in more detail, and we are delighted to welcome Annastiina, an entrepreneur, public speaker, and CEO of Hintsa Performance. Annastiina draws on her own experience of burnout and transformation, as well as decades of working with clients ranging from Formula 1 drivers and CEOs to social entrepreneurs and political leaders. Her perspective challenges us to rethink the foundations of leadership effectiveness: a better life leads to better performance.
This interactive session will explore how leaders can:
– Build the personal resilience needed to thrive under pressure– Establish the clarity and balance that supports sustainable high performance– Translate personal practices into team-wide habits that unlock collective success
Bringing together professionals from across delivery, consulting, and client organisations, the discussion will focus on practical strategies leaders can apply in their own contexts.
You can read Hinsta’s recent report here: The Hidden Value of F1 | Hintsa Performance
To register, please email: roundtable@resolex.com

Turning Tension into Trust: Conflict avoidance in complex project environments
2026-07-01 17:30 - 20:00
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Join us, the Conflict Avoidance Coalition and the Institution of Civil Engineers for a panel discussion exploring how project environments can support earlier, more effective handling of conflict.
The ICE’s five-year strategy points to a growing challenge: trust in infrastructure professionals. With recent project failures putting that trust under pressure, this session looks at how conflict within projects can surface and intensify these issues, and what can be done to address them before they escalate.
Featuring guest panellists from the Environment Agency and the Houses of Parliament Restoration and Renewal Programme, the discussion draws on real case studies and live project experience to explore what enables teams to identify issues early and respond constructively.
While innovation continues to improve productivity, projects are ultimately delivered by people. It is the conflicts between them – and how they are managed or avoided – that often determine success.

Panellists:

Edward Moore, ResoLex

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Veronica Flint-Williams, Environment Agency

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Sue Barrett, Houses of Parliament, R&R Programme

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Interactive Workshop: Are We Setting Future Leaders Up to Succeed…or Holding Them Back?
2026-07-14 15:00 - 17:30
What if leadership development has been shaped by people who no longer remember what it’s like to be led?
In 2025, ResoLex brought together senior leaders from major projects and high-performance environments to explore leadership, resilience, and personal performance. Now, we’re turning the lens to future leaders.
We are delighted to be joined by speakers from the Major Projects Association and Hintsa Performance.
This event is aimed at early careers, future leaders and emerging leaders, and seeks to challenge current thinking on leadership and to help shape what comes next. You’ll be asked to react to real insights from senior leaders – and then correct them where needed.
It’s about:

What actually works on complex projects
Where leadership models fall down in reality
What future leaders need – and expect – from those at the top
What practical steps can we take to influence current leaders?

Your insights will directly inform a whitepaper on leadership and future leaders, with the potential to influence how leadership is developed across major projects.
Why attend?

Contribute to a high-profile industry whitepaper
Shape future leadership thinking (not just talk about it)
Engage with peers facing similar complexity and pressure
Influence programmes designed for future leaders – including the MPA Rising Stars initiative

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